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County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 53,479 people were on the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (66%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North East · ODS code RXP

People waiting (all services)
53,479
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
65.5%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
943
Services reported
15
with people currently waiting

943 people (1.8%, roughly 1 in 56) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics10,57974%60.6%108-9.4 pp
General surgery6,31460%63.0%209+2 pp
Dermatology5,56653%69.0%349-4.5 pp
Gynaecology4,78066%61.0%90+11 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)3,77372%59.0%0+8.5 pp
Gastroenterology3,39462%69.3%2+0.6 pp
Ophthalmology3,15167%73.8%20-7.5 pp
Rheumatology2,00848%70.8%44-10.2 pp
General medicine1,92867%71.4%0+5.3 pp
Plastic surgery1,53463%59.3%30+9.5 pp
Respiratory medicine1,53464%74.8%1-11 pp
Cardiology1,47382%68.2%0+2.5 pp
Oral surgery76061%55.0%0-5.7 pp
Elderly medicine40594%83.1%0+4.7 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery2343%72.8%0-28 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 2.9 percentage points (68% to 66%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (66.8% in March 2026); down 2 points over 6 months (67.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -2.9 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202568.4%
August 202568.7%
September 202570.1%
October 202568.7%
November 202568.3%
December 202567.5%
January 202666.1%
February 202664.8%
March 202666.8%
April 202666.9%
May 202667.1%
June 202665.5%

Month-to-month movements of less than two percentage points are treated as normal variation rather than a real change in direction.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly all-services figures for County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202540,68368.4%394
August 202541,46568.7%479
September 202542,33070.1%504
October 202542,30868.7%555
November 202540,85168.3%608
December 202541,45367.5%627
January 202642,14066.1%779
February 202642,31264.8%671
March 202643,02766.8%415
April 202652,78866.9%701
May 202652,37867.1%774
June 202653,47965.5%943

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Contact details we hold for this organisation

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What these figures cannot tell you

  • Where you are in a queue, or when you will be seen or treated.
  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
  • Anything about a specific consultant, clinic or site within a trust.
  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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